Just getting the idea out there about if new races could be introduced to epic, The whole idea of the 40k universe is fantastic but there is a limit of units and what races you choose.

The idea has been lurking in my mind for a while but not having the experiance in the gaming side how would you go on about introducing a new race and give its specs fairly i.e not to strong and not to weak so they could be fielded fairly against other 40k armies.

Been a sci fi nut there are many different kind of armies that i would would like to see designed, one that tickles my fancy most at the moment are the large golden chaps out the fifth element film with the large robotic bodies with little heads

Also the copywrite dramas would be lost and minatures would be freely availble to forum members, I know there are good firms out there such EW etc that already supply good proxies but new races done in CAD by a certain members such as wolves would be very cool.

Just getting a feel for what other members think.....

Regards epic

It would be fine for a fan project. Over the years people have written EA lists for armies from other games. At some point, someone converted a large number of Battletech mechs to EA stats, and had a rough formula for converting others. NetEpic, which likes to be retro, has army lists for some seriously old school GW forces, like the Slann.

I'm sure you could find people to review lists and possibly even do a test game or two. I wouldn't expect it to be incorporated into the NetEA project, though.

All Sci-fi 6mm is good for me !! DRM Kraytonians, Exodus Wars Tarragin, CinC Felids, Hammer's Slammers, to name some, that I have in my 6mm Sci-fi forces. It's a big universe !!

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Gotta agree with Neal; have fun, do whatever works for you, but bear in mind that a lot of people want to stick to the 40k universe, and that means anything outside of that is never going to come under the NetEA umbrella.

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Go for it, epic. I personally wouldn't have a problem with playing against a well-balanced army that has no basis in 40k fluff.

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Ditto, I'd enjoy fighting something a bit different

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on this Cheers for the comments guys,

well balanced opinions on this subject from the comments above and can understand the stuff about the fluff purists as im fairly into that myself, the main reason for looking into this myself is from a 6mm fan who enjoys the creativity and painting side of things.

I think if some nice crisp 6mm sci fi minatures where released and designed in cad and to a good scale, even just a few troop sprues that could be mixed with other 6mm sci vehicles etc.

Next step will be to sketch up a few designs and we will see what happens

Many thanks for the comments guys and cheers for the decent input, regards epic

If I was to make a new epic army list id create one that plays on the existing fluff rather than completely alien to 40k. So rather than say a smurf or otter army (dont get me wrong - i love those little guys) it could be a ratling army , a jokero hign tech conglomerate or warp beast horde.

+ there's always the well trodden route of dragging an army kicking and screaming from WFB - space skaven anyone!?

Yes-yes, the Children of the Horned Rat shall rule the skies, and feast on the flesh of the man-things' corpse-god. Goood.

Wait, what?

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A cool army you could try and create could be those lizard guys with the flenzer guns from the dan abnett books. I forget what they are called but they smell like Mint and rotten milk. I think that you could make a pretty interesting army if you wanted to.

Different is good.